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St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and 

Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways 

Little Rock, Arkansas 



GET A HOME 



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ARKANSAS 




WORLDS FAIR 
INDUSTRIAL 
SERIES No. 13 
1st edition 



B T S. 1,. K A Y 




Issued by LAND DEPARTMENT of the St. Louis, 
Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock 
& Fort Smith Railways, Little Rock, Arkansas 






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Introdxxciory 




Was there ever a human heart which did not look fondly back 
to some hallowed spot which it called home, or looked forward 
with longing and anticipation to the time when a new and ideal 
home would be secured and occupied? 

In every living creature, from the lowest form of animal life 
up to the most refined and intelligent classes of the human race, the 
home instinct is, above all other influences, the primary, controlling 
force which binds the individual to some certain place — that place 
called and loved as home. 

The love for home is universal, and, next to self-preservation, 
is the deepest impulse of all nature, and to the building of that 
home, whether it be the nest of the bird, the lair, burrow, 
hole or den of the beast, or the tent, hut, cabin, cottage or palace 
of man, the greatest care, industry and enthusiasm of life is di- 
rected, and as soon as the parental roof is forsaken the heart 
begins to desire and plan for the new home. He who follows 
this impulse and puts this natural and praiseworthy desire into 
practical execution is "the salt of the earth," and to him all the 
nations of the world have, do and will forever look and depend 
for preservation. 

How heartily we all join in the sentiments so beautifully ex- 
pressed by the poets who sang 

" 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." 
And, 

"How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, 
When fond recollection presents them to view." 

Can any man or woman who reads, reflects upon and applies 
these sacred lines to their own lives, close their eyes and hearts 



to them and continue to drift passively down life's river without 
making an effort to build on the strand, a little home, to which 
his or her children, may, w-hen they have gone out upon the world, 
in strong maturitj' or declining age, look back with these en- 
dearing memories? 

To you, thousands upon thousands, who reside in overcrowded 
cities and in those parts of the world where lands are scarce and 
high in price, whose dearest desire is to provide comfortable homes 
for your families, but to whom the future seems to promise no 
ray of hope; 

To you, W'ho, although you own homes of sufficient capacity to 
supply present needs, are looking forward with apprehension and 
anxietj' to the time when each of your little ones w'ill have gone 
from the old "hive," and \vill require as much room as the little 
home now provides for all; 

To you, W'ho are seeking profitable places for investment of 
surplus and idle capital; and 

To you, whose declining health warns you to seek a change of 
surroundings, rest, diversion or a mild, salubrious climate; 

To j'ou, we respectfully dedicate this little booklet. We urge 
you to look beyond the narrow limits of your present environments 
and see the benefits which Arkansas is able to offer you, and we 
want to invite you to come here, where a hearty welcome and a 
prosperous and happy future awaits every good, industrious and 
ambitious citizen who comes to join us in building, developing and 
enjoying a home in Arkansas. 




We mean the above as a word of advice to the thousands who 
are now living in homes which belong to others. It matters not 
whether you now toil on the barren shores of New England, on 
the worn hills of the "Old South," the ice-bound but rich soils of 
the North, the wind-swept plains of the Northwest, the parched 
flats of the West, the rock-ribbed heights and depths of the Rocky- 
Mountains, or the sun-blasted deserts of the Southwest, there is 

some place in the great State of Arkansas which 
Get a Home you may make into a congenial, contented, happy 
in Arkansas. and prosperous home; some place, which, no matter 

how modest may be your store of earthly goods, if 
you have a vigorous body, a strong will, industry and an ambition 
to better your condition, you may own without going hopelessly 
into debt. 

We want you to accept this statement as true, and then we 
want you to stop and think. We want 5'ou to look back over your 
past life, consider how many years you have spent in the severest 
of toil, and then figure your gain therefrom. Have you received 
adequate pay for your time and toil? Has your family enjoyed the 
comforts and advantages which you had planned for them? Have 
you accumulated a fund from your eflforts which will save you and 
your dear ones from being kicked out upon the world in case 
accident or ill health should rob you of your power to continue to 
toil? Have you any assurance that next year, the next decade, or 
the remainder of your life has anything better in store for you 
than the past has brought? If "no" be your answer to all these 
questions we want to remind you that you ought now to be at 
that point in life where you know the necessity of yourself getting 



to them and continue to drift passively down life's river without 
making an effort to build on the strand, a little home, to which 
his or her children, may, when they have gone out upon the world, 
in strong maturity or declining age, look back with these en- 
dearing memories? 

To you, thousands upon thousands, who reside in overcrowded 
cities and in those parts of the world where lands are scarce and 
high in price, whose dearest desire is to provide comfortable homes 
for your families, but to whom the future seems to promise no 
ray of hope; 

To you, who, although you own homes of sufficient capacity to 
supply present needs, are looking forward with apprehension and 
anxiety to the time when each of your little ones will have gone 
from the old "hive," and will require as much room as the little 
home now provides for all; 

To you, who are seeking profitable places for investment of 
surplus and idle capital; and 

To you, whose declining health warns you to seek a change of 
surroundings, rest, diversion or a mild, salubrious climate; 

To you, we respectfully dedicate this little booklet. We urge 
you to look beyond the narrow limits of your present environments 
and see the benefits which Arkansas is able to offer you, and we 
want to invite you to come here, where a hearty welcome and a 
prosperous and happy future awaits every good, industrious and 
ambitious citizen who comes to join us in building, developing and 
enjoying a home in Arkansas. 




We mean the above as a word of advice to the thousands who 
are now living in homes which belong to others. It matters not 
whether you now toil on the barren shores of New England, on 
the worn hills of the "Old South," the ice-bound but rich soils of 
the North, the wind-swept plains of the Northwest, the parched 
flats of the West, the rock-ribbed heights and depths of the Rocky- 
Mountains, or the sun-blasted deserts of the Southwest, there is 

some place in the great State of Arkansas which 
Get a Home you may make into a congenial, contented, happy 
in Arkansas. and prosperous home; some place, which, no matter 

how modest may be your store of earthly goods, if 
you have a vigorous body, a strong will, industry and an ambition 
to better your condition, you may own without going hopelessly 
into debt. 

We want you to accept this statement as true, and then we 
want you to stop and think. We want you to look back over your 
past life, consider how many years you have spent in the severest 
of toil, and then figure your gain therefrom. Have you received 
adequate pay for your time and toil? Has your family enjoyed the 
comforts and advantages which y(n\ had planned for them? Have 
you accumulated a fund from your efforts which will save you and 
your dear ones from being kicked out upon the world in case 
accident or ill health should rob you of your power to continue to 
toil? Have you any assurance that next year, the next decade, or 
the remainder of your life has anything better in store for you 
than the past has brought? H "no" be your answer to all these 
questions we want to remind you that you ought now to be at 
that point in life where you know the necessity of yourself getting 



the first fruits of your own industry. Experience has no doubt 
taught you that high rents, interest and taxes are together absorb- 
ing all the profits of your work and that you must eliminate them 
from your expenses before you may hope to rise above the dignity 
of "working for your keep" the same as your dumb animals are 
doing. If rent is the barrier that obstructs your progress, go to 
some new country where you can buy land cheap, and purchase and 
open up a new home which you may occupy without paying rent. 
If interest and taxes on your own high-priced, but heavily mort- 
gaged farm absorbs your resources, sell the place and get rid of 
these burdens. Get together your earthly store and seek a new 
country, where, by hard work, economy and modest living for a 
year or two, you may become established again without carrying 
these loads for the benefit of a landlord or for building expensive 
public improvements from which you receive little or no personal 
benefit. Do not continue to work blindly against the force of over- 
whelming odds. Stop and think. Work your mind as well as 
your body. Lay your plans for the future, and then work, econ- 
omize, trade and barter until your affairs are in shape to cut loose 
from the old home, and cast your lot in a newer and better coun- 
try, where you can get ten acres for the price of one in the country 
in which you now live. That means forty acres instead of four, a 
quarter section instead of a fair-sized truck patch. There are 
several States which offer you this abstract proposition, but there 
is only one State which offers you the best proposition, and that 
State is Arkansas. 

The producer's margin of profit upon his products are exceed- 
ingly narrow. He must reduce the cost of production in every 
possible way. Low-priced land will reduce his 
"Come, taxes and the interest on his investment. Pro- 

Let Us Rea- ductive soil and modern machinery will increase 
son Together." the returns from his labor. Improved seed and 
live stock will raise the market value of his offer- 
ings, and close proximity to market will save for him, every day, 
as long as he remains in active life, a little margin from transporta- 
tion charges. 

Arkansas lands are available at very low prices. Why is this? 
It is easily explained, and in a way which your own reason will 



lead you to approve. Arkansas was originally one of the most 
heavily timbered States in the Union. There is timber everywhere. 
Homeseekers have, in past years, sought prairie 
Prices of Land, sections, thoughtlessly passing through timbered 
localities, without giving them an investigation, 
and paying double, thribble or quadruple the prices asked for our 
soils, for far-away prairie lands, not half so fertile and in climates 
not half so favorable for profitable farming. This condition has 
held prices for timbered lands down, below their real values as 
guaranteed by their earning capacities. But productive prairie 
lands are now no longer available and the passing emigrant is now 
looking beneath the banks of verdure which his predecessor blun- 
dered blindly by. What does he see? A fertile soil, hidden beneath 
a valuable and merchantable covering of timber, which, through 
the exercise of wisdom and diligence may often be made to yield 
funds enough to repay the price of a warranty deed to the prem- 
ises. He sees free fuel, and free building materials with which to 
improve his home. With a giant oak or a magnificent pine always 
ready to be felled and marketed, he sees an ever-present resource, 
any day in the year, should he stand in need of a little "ready 
money." He also sees in the lower price at which he is able to 
buy these timbered lands, an opportunity to "cash in" his labor, 
years in advance of having performed it. He sees in the timber, 
a protection against high winds and an absolute guarantee that his 
crops will not be blighted by hot winds nor drouths. Even though 
he has meager means, he will run no risk in bringing his family 
here for a new home. 

Owing to the great variety of soils found in the different sec- 
tions of Arkansas she has become noted for the wide range of her 
staple products, and is able today to offer substantial inducements 
to those who desire to engage in nearly all lines of farming. In 
some sections her soils are formed from the disintegration of heavy 

deposits of limestone, intermixed and made lively 
Produc- by the decay of the leaves of the forest for thou- 

tive Soils. sands of years. In other sections the lime has by 

the action of waters been intermixed with sard 
and formed into deep, alluvial deposits, easy to till and of inex- 
haustible fertility. Great beds of phosphate rock have in other 
sections added their richness to the others. Here we find clay 



loams charged with humus and mixed with marl washed from 
mountain deposits further up the valleys. Nearly all our soils 'ire 
colored with iron, which, in the cases of some fruits, adds much 
to the appearance and market value of the product. Thousands of 
square miles of the southwest part of the state are underlaid by a 
deep deposit of chalk or carbonate of lime, the decay of which has 
formed a soil in which every known product which thrives in this 
latitude can be profitably raised. 

There are comparatively few farmers, even among those who 
have followed the industry for many years, who have ever given 
any thought to the importance of being close to market. We want 
to emphasize this point, for in it Arkansas has an enormous ad- 
vantage over all her sister States, and a full understanding of what 

you may save in shipping rates by locating here 
Close to Market, instead of in any of the States which lie further 

south or southwest, will cause every investigator 
to pitch his new home in Arkansas. Let us figure on this matter. 
Your ultimate market for every commodity will always be where 
the greatest demand arises. Great northern and eastern cities, 
and mining and manufacturing communities, are the points to 
which you must look for your markets, and as the price on any 
product is the same there, no matter whether these products ate 
raised in Arkansas or California, it is evident that the Arkansas 
producer will save a greater profit than the man who ships further, 
because his freight and express charges are less, and he saves the 
entire difference. 

Little Rock, Arkansas, is 345 miles from St. Louis, our nearest 
market. Double that distance and you will increase your trans- 
portation charges about 50 per cent. At first thought that don't 
appear to amount to much, especially as you never have had your 
attention called to this expense. You have, no doubt, always 
shipped your produce direct to your commission man, and let him 
defray the expense and charge the amount up to the consignment 
and remit to you the overplus. 

For example: There is no place on earth where strawberries 
do better than in Arkansas, and if you come here you will, of 
course, raise some of them, to fill in your time at slack seasons. 



and to bring in a few dollars in cash at a time of the year when 
your expenses will run heavy and your income 
Let Us See. light. One acre of berries would be a great help, 
as a fair yield would be about 200 crates, worth, if 
they are of an early variety, from $1.50 to $2.00 per crate. The 
express charges on these will be about 30 cents per crate, that is 
$60.00 for delivering the crop from your one acre. If you had 
located 700 miles distant from your market instead of in Arkansas, 
this charge would be $90.00 instead of $60.00, and you have saved 
$30.00. In twenty-five years this saving from one acre of your 
farm would amount to $750.00. Should your success and the liberal 
profits from your Arkansas acre planted to this crop lead you to 
raise forty acres of berries instead of one, your saving would, in 
twenty-five years, amount to $30,000, and you will have saved a 
fortune from this seemingly unimportant source, all, too, because 
you had been wise enough to locate your home close to market in 
Arkansas, instead of going farther away. This saving will come 
to 3'ou from every commodity which your farm, garden, truck- 
patch, mill or factory produces, no matter whether it be fruit, 
vegetables, grain, cotton, hay, live stock, lumber or other manu- 
factured article. 

There is one more thought which we want to apply here. No 
farm, no matter how well it is managed, can supply all the owner's 
needs and there will always be a lot of necessities, which you and 
your family must have, v/hich you cannot produce, but must buy, 
and they must be shipped to you from the same market to which 
you ship your own products. Here again vve 
A Look at see that the further they are shipped the moie 

the Other Side. transportation charges will have piled up against 
them, and you, as the consumer, must stand this 
expense, and if you have wisely located in Arkansas, close to where 
these necessities are produced or manufactured, you will save a 
little in the cost of every sack of flour, every pound of coflfee, 
every plug of tobacco, every gallon of oil, and so on, clear down 
through the almost endless list of your needs. We have empha- 
sized this point entirely in your interest, and if you are not yet 
convinced we would urge you to search deeper into the subject 
before you decide to locate elsewhere. If Arkansas and some other 



State are inviting you to seek your future home within their bor- 
ders, write to the general freight agent of each of the railroads 
near which you expect to locate, and secure freight rates on the 
particular product which you expect to cultivate. Then estimate 
the volume of your yearly shipments and multiply the result by 
the number of years you expect to remain in active business. Now 
compare the two grand totals, and we doubt not that you will con- 
clude that you can better afford to pay a good price for a good 
farm, close to market in Arkansas, than to accept a home free in 
any other competing State. 

Every practical farmer and every intelligent home-seeker has 
formed in his own mind an ideal of what the new home should be, 
a picture in his mind's eye. He wants to engage in some certain 

line of farming, in which he has been in the past 
Your Ideal. the most successful, or from which he has derived 

the greatest pleasure. He wants to go to a country 
where all the conditions of soil, climate, elevation, market and sur- 
roundings are especially adapted to the success of his plans, and in 
order to give our reader the best possible knowledge of the adapt- 
abilities of the different sections of Arkansas, we will divide the 
State into five "industrial sections," specifying the general lines 
which are best adapted to each. 

In the level, alluvial lands of Randolph, Clay, Greene, Craig- 
head, Lawrence, Independence, Jackson, Woodruff, Poinsett, Cross, 
Lonoke, and White counties grain, grass, live stock, truck and 
vegetable farming is the most successful corn- 
General Grain bination. In the upland sections of these coun- 
and Live ties fruits of almost all kinds may be added to 

Stock Farming. this list. Cotton is also a very profitable crop 
on any land where corn does well, this section 
being just within the northern limit of the "cotton belt." Those 
parts of this region which He below the stone levels, are underlaid 
at a depth of from sixteen to sixty feet by a stratum of gravel, 
filled with sheet water, pure, sparkling and soft, which may be 
reached, in most cases, by driving a pipe with a sandpoint at- 
tached, until the water-bearing gravel bed is tapped, then attach 
an ordinary suction pump-head, and a reliable and inexhaustible 
well is secured. In the mountainous and rocky portions of these 



counties bold springs are often found. The various clovers, tim- 
othy and Kentucky blue grass and other tame grasses are adapted 
to the soils of this section. The list of native timbers is composed 
exclusively of hardwoods and wild range is good, especially in 
the vicinity of the streams where canebrake grows profusely. 

Skirting the great Arkansas river from the west line of the 
State, down to the city of Pine Bluff, is a country which, while it 
produces good yields of corn and other grains, it is especially 
adapted to cotton, potatoes, vegetables and small fruits. Above 
the city of Little Rock, the capital of the State, 
Cotton, this stream flows between two ranges of moun- 

Small Fruits tains, the Boston range on the north and the 

and Vegetables. ]\Iagazines on the south, and as you ascend the 
slopes on either side our noted apple lands are 
entered. These are the lands which have produced the premium- 
taking "big red apples" which have entered all competitive exposi- 
tions held in this country for years, and carried away the blue 
ribbons, thus making Arkansas famous everywhere as the "world's 
orchard." The man who wants to raise apples, peaches, pears, 
small fruits, potatoes, vegetables, poultry, with cotton and a few 
head of live stock and enough of grain and forage to finish them 
for slaughter or market, can not do better than to locate on the 
sunny slopes of this great and picturesque valley. 

In that part of the State covered by the counties of Pulaski, 
Saline, Garland, Hot Spring, Grant and Western Jefferson is found 
unusual local markets for all varieties of farm produce. Clustered 
together, each within fifty miles of the other two, lie three great 
cities. The enormous demands of the city of 
Market Gardening, Hot Springs, with its hotel capacity of more 
Dairying, With than fifty thousand, reinforced by the wants 
Cotton and Corn. of the cities of Little Rock and Pine Bluff, to- 
gether with the ample and peculiar transporta- 
ticm facilities furnished by the three great railway systems which 
penetrate and are striving for the patronage of the territory, have 
all conspired to open here the finest of opportunities for those who 
desire to make their leading work intensive farming, dairying, 
trucking and gardening to supply the necessities of the locality. 
The soils of this section are well adapted to the purpose, being of 



a warm, sandy nature, easy to cultivate and early to produce. 
There is a considerable acreage of mountain lands in the western 
part of this territory, but they furnish good pasturage for cattle, 
are perfectly adapted to the raising of fruit and will be utilized 
for dairies and orchards yielding splendid profits. The ilocal mar- 
kets of this little section are its great attractive feature and may 
always be relied upon to take, at good prices, all the produce of its 
truck patches, dairies and gardens. 

Ml that part of the State lying southeast of the city of Pine 
Bluft, comprising the counties of Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Ashley, 
Desha and Chicot, is a wonderful cotton country. The surface is 
in most places, low and level, some of it lying so low as to neces- 
sitate protection from overflow by levees. There are no richer nor 
more productive soils on earth than those of this 
A Great section of Arkansas. They are best adapted to 

Cotton Country, the production of cotton and corn, and an im- 
proved farm in this region usually rents at from 
$5.00 to $8.00 per acre, money rent, or one hundred pounds of lint 
cotton, which, of course, depends for value on the market price. 
In the fall of 1903. farms rented on this plan netted their owners 
about $12.00 per acre. While these soils are very rich they are not 
adapted to a wide range of products. Corn, cotton, Irish potatoes 
and vegetables yield the most liberal returns. The man who is 
looking for an investment and desires an acreage sufficient to 
justify him in hiring an overseer to look after its improvement, or 
if it is already opened up, to superintend the colored tenants, 
should carefully investigate this section, for, by judicious manage- 
ment, he can make an investment here to clear him a profit of from 
50 to 100 per cent per annum. 

These are not the only products of Southwest Arkansas, but 
they help to make up a long and profitable list. The counties of 
Clark, Pike, Dallas, Howard, Hempstead, Nevada, Ouachita, Little 
River, Miller and Lafayette are among the richest in soil fertility 
of any upland region of the Southwest. All this section is under- 
laid by a heavy deposit of chalk or carbonate of 
Peaches lime with light and scattering deposits of iron, 

and Cream. these two, in combination with silica, forming the 
basic ingredients of the soil. From the deteriora- 
tion and mixture of these deposits with humus from the decay, 



throiVgh centuries, of heavy annual coats of leaves and other vege- 
tation has come the deep, dark, rich mould which all through these 
counties covers hill and valley alike. Such a soil will grow and 
mature with profit almost anything which is planted in it, and 
Southwest Arkansas only limits its range of products to those va- 
rieties which thrive in a temperate climate. 

The luxurious growth of clover, alfalfa, oats, corn, sorghum, 
millet and nearly all other grain, forage and pasture plants, not 
only fits this fortunate country for the dairy industry but guaran- 
tees that all other kinds of live stock will do well. 

The soil of these counties is mostly of a warm, quick nature 
and admirably -fitted to produce early fruits and vegetables, and in 
this class of products will probably be found the great source of 
the future wealth of the locality. The iron in the soil and subsoil 
seems to be just the ingredient which is needed to put faultless 
finishing touches of color upon the luscious berries and peaches 
produced here, and the early offerings of these fruits from South- 
west Arkansas always top the market wherever they appear. The 
natural advantages and general conditions of this region are favor- 
able to the small, prosperous farmer, who, by intensive cultivation 
and a large assortment of products, some of which will mature 
during almost every month of the year, builds up a plethoric bank 
account and surrounds himself and his happy family with the 
pleasures and luxuries of life. It will be but a few years until the 
grandeur of the old-time, southern manor will be eclipsed by many 
a mansion on the small farms of Southwest Arkansas. 

The question of first importance to the man who is consider- 
ing a change of his home to a distant state is: "What is the 
climate?" This question is vital to him, because 
Climate he must take and endure the climate just as he at 

of Arkansas, first finds it. He can change or modify the soil, 
break the prairie, clear the forest, drain the swamp 
or irrigate the desert, but the climate must remain essentially un- 
changed. 

Arkansas rejoices under a climate so mild and agreeable, so 
salubrious and healthful, and so favorable to propagation, growth 
and cultivation of farm crops, that every day seems perfect as 
it passes. 

While our climate is mild as compared with that of the States 



further north, yet it presents a greater diversity of temperature at 
any given time than any other equal area of country on the west- 
ern continent. This is owing to the diversity of elevation and the 
many sheltered valleys. The season in the southeast is three 
weeks in advance of that of the northern part of the State. The 
rainfall is abundant, but days of sunshine largely outnumber the 
cloudy ones. 

The seasons of seed-time and harvest are long and mild. Out- 
door work can go on during the whole year. 

Where to go and how to get there, are the first questions for 
the home-seeker to decide. Arkansas, as well as many other new 
States, are inviting and urging him to come. They are sending 
him descriptive circulars, pamphlets and maps, but as these mul- 
tiply in his home and are read by him and the 
How to members of his family they are more liable to 

Select a Home, bewilder than to assist him. They usually deal 
in generalities only, making sweeping statements 
covering a whole State. A State is a large territory for him to 
look over, and the minute he starts from home, on his trip of 
investigation, his expenses begin to pile up at a rate which will 
soon convince him that, unless he is a large investor he had "better 
hurry" or he will soon have more money invested in the trip than 
he will have left to put into the home after he at last succeeds in 
finding what he wants. 

He should, therefore, ascertain by correspondence, before leav- 
ing home, what particular section or county is in a general way 
best adapted to his needs. The preceding pages of this pamphlet 
are intended to assist him in this way. There are also five other 
booklets published by the Land Department of the St. Louis, Iron 
Mountain and Southern and Little Rock and Fort Smith Railways 
which are full of definite information for him, and which he may 
secure free by writing to G. A. A. Deane, Land Commissioner, at 
Little Rock, Ark., and asking for them. They are: "Mineral 
Wealth of Arkansas," which describes and locates all the most 
important deposits of ore, coal, clays and other valuable inorganic 
deposits; "Timber Resources of Arkansas," which describes and 
points out where all the leading varieties of timber are native; 
"Northeast Arkansas," takes up that section of the State by coun- 



ties, one at a time, and fully describes each, giving area, population, 
county seat, location, soil, subsoil, water supply and streams, gen- 
eral lay of surface, varieties of timber growth, products to which 
the soil is best adapted, class of settlement, shipping, school and 
church facilities, range of land prices and acreage of railroad lands 
now offered for sale; "Southwest Arkansas" and "The Arkansas 
Valley" take up and treat of the respective sections as indicated by 
their names, in the same manner as the preceding pamphlet. All 
these publications are comprehensive and accurate and will be of 
great assistance to the seeker for reliable information. 

After you have finally decided as to what point is nearest in 
line with your ideal, then call upon or write to your nearest rail- 
road ticket agent and tell him that you want to go to that place, to 
look up a home. State, as near as possible, the date on which you 
would like to start and ask him to procure for you a round-trip, 
home-seeker's ticket for the excursion date nearest the time when 
it is convenient for you to go. Tell him that you want to reach the 
lines of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain System at the nearest 
convenient point, and to travel over the lines of that system from 
there to destination and return. If the agent refuses or is unable 
to secure the ticket for you, write at once to G. A. A. Deane, Land 
Commissioner, at Little Rock, and explain what you want, where 
you want to go and when you will be ready to start, and if it is 
possible to secure the reduced rate ticket for you he will see that 
you are accommodated. 

Provide yourself before leaving home with a good map of 
Arkansas and a local time-table of the line over which you will 
travel in the State, showing the stations at which 
Prepare you vvill stop, which will enable you to know be- 

for the Trip, fore boarding the next train after a stop off whether 
this new train stops or not at the next place which 
you desire to investigate. You can get both the map and the time- 
table free by application to any representative of the road. Also 
secure a small blank book to carry in your pocket, in which to jot 
down objects of interest, addresses, prices and descriptions while 
en route. You will thus be able to store up a much larger amount 
of useful information than you will if you rely on your memory. 



Your home-seekers' ticket will be for the round trip. It will 
allow you fifteen days in which to reach the point to which you 
desire to go. After you reach the Arkansas State line on the way 
down, you are entitled to stop oflf at any station, 
How to which is a regular stop for the train, to look over 

Use a Home- the country. When you change cars for the last 
Seeker Ticket, time before entering the State, inform the con- 
ductor, when you hand him your ticket, at what 
station you desire to make the first stop. Be sure to do this. He 
will then fix your ticket accordingly. Don't remain silent until he 
cancels the full going portion of your ticket and then kick because 
he tells you that you will have to go clear through without a stop- 
ofif. He takes it for granted that you desire to go clear through, 
otherwise you would say so. Be careful to observe these instruc- 
tions with each conductor until you reach your destination. 

And be sure to make all the stops you desire to make on the 
going portion of the trip, because when you once start for home 
you must go through without stop. This requirement is imperative 
and can not be changed. 

After you have selected the location for your future home, you 
desire to move your belongings and family. In order to enable 
you to do this as cheaply as possible the various 
Colonist Rates, railroads which enter the State from the territory 
in which the home-seeker tickets are on sale have 
agreed upon a cheap one-way ticket, at half the regular rate, plus 
$2.00, and which are on sale on regular home-seeker dates and good 
for continuous passage. 

These are made especially low, and the goods which may be 
shipped under this class are all the equipment of farm and home, 
including a limited number of domestic ani- 
Freight Rates on mals. On most roads a free ticket is given 
Emigrant Movables, for one attendant to ride in the car, when 
the load consists partly of live stock. This 
fatter concession, however, is not allowed on all roads. 



The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, and the Little Rock 
& Fort Smith Railways own nearly two million acres of lands in 
the State of Arkansas, which is offered to actual settlers at low 

prices and on easy terms. These lands are scattered 
Railroad through the counties of Clay, Randolph, Green, Sharp, 
Lands. Lawrence, Craighead, Jackson, Independence, Wood- 

ruflf. White, Cleburne, Prairie, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline, 
Grant, Garland, Hot Spring, Dallas, Clark, Pike, Howard, Sevier, 




Map showing the Iron Mountain and Little Roclt and Fort Smith 
Railroad Land Grants. 

Hempstead, Nevada, Ouachita, Little River, ]\Iiller, Lafayette, 
Faulkner, Perry, Conway, Van Buren, Pope, Johnson, Yell, Logan, 
Franklin, Crawford, Sebastian, Jefiferson, Lincoln, Desha, and 



Drew, and comprise lands of every description known in our 
State, and are adapted to the growth of all crops suited to our lati- 
tude. They contain mineral, coal, and everj^ valuable natural 
deposit found in our State, and are covered with valuable forest 
growth of great variety. They lie close to market and shipping 
points, and are supplied with good school and social facilities. 

These lands came to the railway companies direct from the 
government and their titles are perfect. Prices range from $3.50 
to $7.00 per acre, according to actual value of soil and timber 
growth and desirability of location. 

Since its admission into the Union Arkansas has never ceased 
to advance. She has never had a boom; she has never had a set- 
back. Her natural resources are so great and varied 
Come to in their character, so strong and far-reaching in 

Arkansas their attractiveness, that immigration has, through 

all the 3'ears, come to her in a steady stream, and, 
like her great rivers, it never flows backward. 

There is not an acre of her surface which does not, in its wild 
state, produce something of value which can be turned into cash 
on the markets of the world. 

Her agricultural lands cover an area of more than twenty-five 
millions of acres, only about one-third of which are now under 
cultivation. 

Her lands which are especiall}- adapted to fruit growing com- 
prise nearly twenty million acres, and not one-twentieth are now 
utilized for that purpose. 

More than seven million acres contain valuable minerals, 
almost entirely undeveloped, and much of it never having been 
Ijrospected. 

In a coal field underlj-ing nearly five million acres and yielding 
a quality of smokeless coal generally considered equal, and by some 
superior, to Pennsylvania hard coal, hardly a score of mines are 
operated. 

Her timber land originally covered almost the entire thirty- 
three million acres comprising the State, and there is enough mer- 
chantable timber now standing, which, if manufactured into lumber 
and sold at market price, would produce funds sufficient to buy 



and pay for all the farming land in mir sister State of Kansas at 
assessed valuation. 

Four million acres contain valuable architectural stone and 
clays, and it is almost untouched. 

A few of our medicinal springs are improved, and nearly an 
hundred thousand of the world's afflicted make annual pilgrimages 
to Arkansas to partake of the health and life-giving waters. 

More than three thousand miles of majestic, navigable rivers, 
almost entirely unimproved today, are destined to be converted 
into ship canals and commerce carriers, their inimeasurable power 
utilized, and their banks lined bj' thousands of factories ere the 
passing of the present generation. 

With all these unused and undeveloped possessions, Arkansas 
invites the farmer, the fruit grower, the miner, the manufacturer, 
the merchant, the capitalist, the professional man, the invalid, the 
industrious, the enterprising, the deserving of all vocations, to 
come and build their homes. Come! She will do you good! 





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LAND DEPARTMENT 

of The St'Lou is Iron Mountain 6. 5ou"fbern)\ 
and Little Rock C FtSmifh Railway^ — ~ 

SECTIONIZED, topographical roller map of Arkansas, size 40 x 44 inches This is 
the most comprehensive and complete map of the State ever compiled. Price, 2Sc. 
Special Land Grant map of Arkansas, size 28 x 50 inches. Free. 

THE FOLLOWING PAMPHLETS 

When ordered singly, will be sent free to any address. When full set or more tnan one 
copy is desired, two cents for each copy should be enclosed to pay cost of transmission. 

ARKANSAS AND HER RESOURCES. Free. 

A FRUITFUL HAND. Free 

ARKANSAS FILLS THE BILL. Free. 

THE WORLDS ORCHARD. Free. 

ARKANSAS AS AN AGRICULTURAL STATE. Frei. 

THE ANGORA GOAT IN ARKANSAS. Free. 

STOCK RAISING IN ARKANSAS. Free. 

MINERAL WEALTH OF ARKANSAS. Free. 

MANUFACTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN ARKANSAS. Fres. 

TIMBER RESOURCES OF ARKANSAS. Free. 

SOMETHING DOING IN ARKANSAS. Free. 

NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. Free. 

DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE. Free. 

GET A HOME IN ARKANSAS. Free. 

THE ARKANSAS VALLEY. Free. 

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. Free. 



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NOTE -To those who desire to subscribe (or an Agricultural Paper, published in this State, we lake 
pleasure in recommending the ARKANSAS HOMESTEAD, published monthly in Little Rock. Sub- 
scription price. 50 cents per year. Sample copy sent free on application to the publisher. 



(C FOR INFORMATION RELATIVE fO~^ 



ELANDS* 



WRITE TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING 
AGENTS OF THE 

LAND DEPARTMENT 




St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and 
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways 



E. S. CRONK.. 



RICHARD JACKSON 



LOCATING 

N. ROYAL.-,.,., Piggott, Ark. 

G. DOWELL - Walnut Ridge, Ark. 

M. HAM Moorefield, Ark. 

N. BEAMt Beebe, Ark. 

G. CALDWELL....- Searcy, Ark. 

L. COOPER _ Benton, Ark. 

P. MELLARD .Hot Springs, Ark. 

M. CROW Arkadelphia. Ark. 

J. P. KING -..- 




GENERAL AGENT 

'DISTRICT AGENTS 
Paragould, Ark. J. W. CHEEK......,--- 

M. THRELKELD Conway, Ark. 

AGENTS 

H. B. McKENZIE-. 

JOHN W. YOES 

S. CARRIGAN 

W. H. DUNCAN 

N. T. HAWKINS 

R. B. WILSON - 

C. ELSKEN -..-. 

H. A. ALLISON 

Ozark, Ark. 



..St. Louie, Mo. 
Little Rock 



Prescott, Ark. 
.Van Buren, Ark. 

Hope, Ark. 

._ Conway, Ark. 

Morrilton, Ark. 

. Russellville, Ark. 

Paris, Ark. 

,.Glarksville,-Ark. 



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LAND COM'R 

LITTLE ROCK.ARK, 




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RAILWAY SYSTEM. 



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H.C.TOWNSEND, GenI pAS^enger and Ticket" A^h 

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The (oMowin? Travding and Passenger Agents ot the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron 
Mountain Route are constantly looking after the interests of the line, and will call upon parties 
contemplating taking a trip and cheertully furnish them lowest rates of fare, maps, guides, lime 
tables, etc., or they may be addressed as follows : 



Atchison. K<D C. F. L#chler 

Boston, Mass.. 192 Wiahington Si 

Louis W Ewuld 

ChattsDooga, Tcnn., 16 E 8th St 

I E Rehlnndcr 

Chicago. III., Ill Adiuns St. .BisscU Wilaoo 
CincmDati, 0., 409 Walnut St 

A A. Gallagher 

Detniit, Mich., 32 Campus Martius. . . . 

H D. AruietroDg 

Indianapolis, lod.. Room :00 Sentinel 

Building G. A. A. Dcanf. Jr. 

Kansas City. Mo. 901 Main St.C E. Styles 
Kansas City, llo , 901 Main Si. J H Lyon 
Kansas City. Mo., 901 Main Si.E S Jiwett 

Leavenworth. Kan P C Lyon 

Lincoln. Neb., 1039 St F. D. Cornell 



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Memphis, Teon.. 314 Main Si H D Wilson 
New York City. 335 Broadway. W E. Hoyt 
Omaha. Neb., corner Hlh and Duuglaa 

Sis Thos, F Godfrey 

Pittsburg, Pa., Room 905 Park Building 

John R, James 

St. Joseph, Mo.. 602 Edmond St 

BcoloD Quick 

Sedalia. Mo J W. McCla.n 

St Uuis. Mo B H Payne 

St. Louis, Mo , Si Jib and Olive 

H F Berklrj 

Si. Louis, Mo, Room 402 Union Station 

W H Morton 

Wichita, Kan., cor. Douglas and Wichita 
Sis I. R Sbcrwin 




RUSSELL HARDING, 

Vice PrestandQenI Mgr. 

A.C.BIRD, C.G.WARNER, 

Vice Prcsiclent,CHICAGO. Vice President 

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